There will be a Music Committee meeting in the Choir Room tomorrow evening beginning at 7:00 PM. We will be choosing hymns for October and November. Visitors are welcome.

The deadline for articles to be published in the next edition of “The Shepherd’s Staff” is noon tomorrow.

We will be preparing a vestry agenda this week for the meeting to take place next Monday. If you have an item for that agenda, please turn it in at the office for inclusion.

There is an open flower date October 28. If that date is close to an important time for you or your family, please consider giving flowers. Simply call Lois Armstrong at 428-1515.

We do need volunteer families or groups for the Parish Breakfasts this year. Those meals are held on the second Sunday of the month from September through May. We do have volunteers for October and November, but none after that. There is a sign up sheet posted for volunteers for the rest of the program year. If you have questions, please call Linda Bennett at 295-9073.

Adults please remember that there is a “Coffee Quarter-Hour” in the Great Hall following the 10:00 Eucharist. This is a time of socialization for adults. Adult Forum begins at 11:40 AM and ends at 12:15 PM.

Habitat for Humanity is working on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from 8 AM until 2 PM at our newest project, 423 Washington Dr. in Mineral Wells. All volunteers are welcome. Lunch volunteers are also needed. Call the Habitat office at 422-7907.

A work day is being planned at Horizons Group Home beginning at 9:00 AM on Saturday, October 13. Your help would be appreciated – skill is not required.

This is the last Sunday in the month and we will have a Children’s Sermon. The preacher for this month’s Children’s Sermon is Art Bennett.

The 2007 Bishop’s Ball will be held at Stonewall Resort on Friday, October 12. A reception before the Ball will be held from 5:30 until 6:30 PM followed by a buffet dinner. The Ball will be from 8:00 until 11:00 PM with music provided by the Gary Stewart Quintet. Tickets (which do not include rooms) are $75.00 per person. Our parish contact for the Ball is Greg Dotson.

What is Centering prayer? It is a method of prayer that can deepen faith in God’s abiding presence by quieting the mind and resting in God’s presence within. A Centering Prayer group will meet at St. Michael Catholic Church, 5501 Fourth Ave., Vienna on Sat., Oct. 13, Sat., Nov. 10 and Sat., Dec. 8 from 9:30AM – 11:30 AM. For more information, please call Mary Jane Kelly 295-4150 or Sr. Molly Bauer 424-6080 or 485-8180.